Printing device for cash-registers.



No. 747,855. PATENTED DEC. 22, 1903. J. P. OLBAL. PRINTING DEVICE FOR CASH REGISTERS.

APPLICATION FILED 0GT.9. 1897.

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J. P. CLEAL. PRINTING DEVICE FOR CASH REGISTERS.

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PRINTING DEVICE FOR CASH REGISTERS.

APPLIGATION FILED OCT. 9, 1897.

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No. 747,855. Patented December 22, 1903.

NITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOSEPH P. OTJEAL, OF DAYTON, OHIO, ASSIGNOR TO THE NATIONAL CASH REGISTER COMPANY, OF DAYTON, OHIO, A CORPORATION OF OHIO.

PRINTING DEVIOE FOR CASH=REG|STERS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 747,855, dated December 22, 1903.

Application filed October 9, 1897. Serial 110.654.616. (N model.)

55?? whom it y COW/867: tion view of part of the machinelike that de- Beitknown thatLJOSEPH P. OLEAL,aciLiscribed in the Oleal and Reinhardt patent zen of the United States, residing at Dayton, above referred towith my invention applied in the county of Montgomery and State of thereto. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the 55 Ohio, have invented certain new and useful cash-register with my improvement added to Improvements in Printing Devices for Cashthe printing device thereof. Fig. 3 is a view Registers; and I do hereby declare the folsimilar to Fig. 2, except that the side of the lowing to be a full, clear, and exact descripcase of the machineis removed to more clearly tion of the invention. show the intermediate means connecting the 60 [0 My invention relates to an improvement keys and the feeding and printing devices.

in printing devices as applied to cash-regis- Fig. a is a detached view of the printing-cylters; and it consists of means intermediate inder, partly in section, to show the means certain keys or one or more of the banks of employed whereby the printing-cylinder bekeys and the feeding orprintingmechanism, comes operative when certain of the keys 65 I5 whereby when certain of the keysare pressed are pressed, though it is normally inoperaa check will be issued and the printing mechtive. Fig. 5 is a detached view of the feedanism will print upon it the amount of the roller which is eccentrically journaled and operated keys and various data regarding normally inoperative, but arranged so that the transactionsuch as the consecutive if certain of the cash-keys arepressed it is 70 number, the kind of transaction, &c.and thrown into operative position to feed the when other of the keys are pressed no check check-strip. Fig. 6 is an end view of a muwill be issued and the printing mechanism til-ated gear and locking-disk that are shown will be inoperative. at the left-hand end of the feed-roller shown When myinventionis appliedtoamachine in Fig. 5. Fig. 7 is a detail view showing 75 that prints and issues a check, the intermethe cylinder which is arranged to print upon diate mechanism before referred to operates theback of the checks. Fig. 8 is an elevation to throw the device which feeds the checkview of the right-hand end of printing-cylinstrip into or out of engagement, according der as shown in Fig. 1. Fig. 9 shows an ecto the key pressed. centrically-grooved disk located at the right- 8o 0 A second feature of my invention relates hand end of the printing-cylinder shown to means wherebythetype-wheelswhioh print in Fig. 8. Fig. 10 shows a vertical section the consecutive number on the check-strip through the machine. Fig. 11 shows a detail are actuated only when the other printing elevation of the printing-cylinder in condimechanisms are operative. In other words, tion so that the consecutive-numbering de- 8 when a registration is made if no check be vice will be advanced one number by the subissued the consecutive-numbering wheels do sequent operation of the machine.

not move relatively to each other. If, how- In all the figures of the drawings the same ever, acheck is issued, the numbering-wheels letters of reference indicate identical parts.

turn one notch to print upon the check its The type of cash-register to which my in- 90 consecutive number. vention as shown is applied is fully described A third feature relates to means for printin the patent to Oleal and Reinhardt, being on the backs of the che k issued by a fore referred to, also in a number of other cash-register, the invention automatically patents, and the machine is, moreover, well printing different advertisements on the known, so that I shall describe only so much 5 backs of successively-issued checks. of the cash-register as is necessary to an un- In the drawings for purposes of illustraderstandiugof myinvention, reference b ing tion I have shown my invention as applied had for a fuller description to the prior art.

to a machine like that described in the patin a cash-register like that shown in the cut to Oleal and Reinhardt, No. 580,378,dated drawings when a transaction is to be recorded I00 jC April 13, 1897. the proper cash-keys A are pressed and the in the drawings, Figure 1 is a front elevacrank B turned, whereupon the amount and character of the transaction are shown upon the indicators (J, the amount of the transaction is added upon the registering-wheels, (not shown,) and simultaneously a check from the paper roll Dis printed by the printing device, severed by the reciprocating knife E, and ejected by the check-ejector arm F in the usual manner. At the same time also the amount and character of the recorded transaction is also printed upon the detail-strip G, which is led from the supply-roll G over the platen G to the record-roll G The supplyroll and the record-roll, it will be understood, are secured upon and movable with the platenframe, which also carries the knife E. \Vhen the keys are pressed and the handle turned, the platen immediately moves up and presses the detail-strip against the type-segments H, thereby printing on the said strip the amount of the last-recorded transaction. The platen then moves downward, the type-segments assume a new position according to the keys which have been pressed, the end of the check-strip is projected across the platen between it and the type-segments, the platen then moves up forcing the end of the checkstrip against the type-segments, so that the amount of the recorded transaction is then printed upon the check, and the knife E then severs the check from the check-strip, and finally the spring-impelled checlnejector F throws the severed check out into a suitable receiver, all described in the patents before referred to. In the machine shown in the drawings the feed-rollers, &c., which lead the end of the check-strip across the knife E and the platen G are normally inoperative; but when certain of the keys are pressed various connecting mechanisms are thrown into engagement, so that the feeding devices become operative and the check is issued. It is entirely a matter of preference which of the keys are arranged to cause a check to be issued when they are operated. In the drawings I have shown the special keys in the left-hand bank (designated B, C, and D, respectively) so arranged, but this arrangement is simply for purposes of illustration and any other desired arrangement can be made.

The driving mechanism consists in the present instance of the crank B, and every time it is turned the main gear I), which is secured upon the end of the transverse shaft Z), is given acomplete revolution. From said gear the motion is transmitted through the intermediate gear I to the gear J, which is secured upon the left-hand end (see Fig. 1) of the printing-cylinder J, within which are the type-wheels for dating and numbering the checks and printing the proprietors business card upon the front thereof in the usual manner. For a fuller description of the printingcylinder reference may be had to the patent to "Wm. Murphy, No. 5%,247, dated September 18, 1895, where it is described in detail. The main gear Z), the intermediate gearl', and

the gear J are so proportioned that whenever the crank is turned the printing-cylinder is given a complete revolution. Journaled upon a transverse shaft below and slightly in front of the type-cylinder is a feed-roller K. The said transverse shaftis journaled at its ends L in suitable bearings in the fixed frames A. A Between said ends L the transverse shaft has a portion L of enlarged diameter which is eccentric with respect to the said ends. The feed-roller K is mounted to turn on the enlarged eccentric portion L, and the gear K, which is secured rigidly to the end of the feed-roll, is in constant mesh with the gear J of the printing-cylinder, so that the feed-roller also is given acomplete revolution every time the crank B is turned. Mounted also upon the transverse shaft, but upon the left-hand end L thereof and on the left-hand side of the gear K, is a mutilated gearl, which has teeth upon but a fourth of its periphery. When the feed-roller K is turned by the driving mechanism, the mutilated gear meshes with and partly revolves a second intermediate gear M, which in turn meshes with a gear M upon the left-hand end of the typecylinder N, which in the present instance bears four electros n. The type-cylinder, the gear M, and the gear 072* adjacent thereto all turn upon the transverse shaft m. Directly below the type-cylinder N is the lower feed-roller 0, which is mounted upon the enlarged middle portion 0 of the lower eccentric shaft, the small ends 0 of which are journaled in suitable hearings in the frames A A The lower feed-roller is driven from the type-cylinder by the gear m which meshes with the gear 0 secured upon the lefthand end of the feed-roller O. Journaled on the left-hand end L of the upper eccentric shaft against the left-hand side of the mutilated gear Z is the upper locking-disk P, and the rim of the disk adjacent the teeth of the mutilated gear is cut away, as shown atp. The said locking-disk cobperates with the lower locking-disk P, which is secured to the left-hand side of the intermediate gear M and turns with it. By this arrangement, which is well known in the art, the intermediate gearis held rigid and immovable until Ihemutilated gear is turned so that the teeth thereof mesh with the intermediate gear. Extending through the locking-disk P and the mutilated gear Z is a radially-extending slot Z, and the pin Z which is fastened to and projects laterally from the left-hand end of the upper feedroller K, fits within the radial slot for a purpose to be presently described. The printingcylinder J, besidescontai ning the dating and nu mbering type-wheels J J serves as a feedroller and cooperates with the feed-roller K to feed the end of the checkstrip past the knifeE. Thetype-cylinderNlikewiseserves as a feed-roller, for which purpose it codpcrates with the lower feed-roller O. The

feed-rollers K and O are normally not close enough to the type-cylinders with which they cooperate as feed-rollers to feed the checkstrip, so that when the crank is turned the feed-rollers and printing-cylinders turn idly without either printing the check or feeding the strip; but as both the feedrollers are mounted on eccentric shafts, as heretofore explained, by giving the said eccentric shafts a partial turn the feed-rollers can be thrown against the printing-cylinders,whereupon the check will be both fed and printed, and by means of the automatic mechanism cooperating with the keys I arrange to automatically give the eccentric shafts the required turn whenever special keys B, C, or D are pressed. To this end I secure a crank Q (shown in broken lines in Fig. 3) upon the right-hand end 0 of the eccentric shaft upon which the lower feed-roller O is journaled. A similar crank Q is secured to the righthand end L of the upper feed-roller, and a link or pitman Q is pivoted at its ends to the cranks Q Q, respectively. Secured also to the right-hand end L of the eccentric shaft on which the upper feed-roller is journaled is a third crank Q to the end of which is jointed the inner end of the connecting-bar R, which at its outer end is provided with a slot 1, in which is fitted a stud r, and the spring R, attached at one end to the connectingbar and at the other to the fixed frame, serves to keep the connecting-barin its extreme forward position and with its curved front edge r pressed againstthe pins R which are secured to and carried by special keys B, C, and D, respectively, and which extend latterly through slots r in the inner frame A of the machine.

Another feature of my invention relates to the means by which when a registration is made if no check is issued the consecutivenumbering device, consisting of the typewheels J remains inoperative within the printing-cylinder J", and the type-wheels are not turned one notch, as they are each time a check is issued. Of course the wheels J for printing the consecutive number on the check are old and well known in the art, and the Murphy patent, above referred to, shows the means employed for advancing the consecutive-numberiug wheels one notch at each operation of the machine, and the means shown in the Murphy patent for accomplishing this end are those used in my invention, as shown in the drawings. A button or other manually-operated device by which the feedrollers may be turned on an eccentric shaft to prevent the issue of the check is also well known intheart; butheretoforeithas not been possible when the check-strip was turned off to prevent the consecutive-numbering wheels from advancing. In other words, ithas been impossible to prevent their progressing one notch at each turn of the handle irrespective of whether the check-strip was turned on or off. The feature of my invention which I am about to describe automatically shifts the mechanism so that the consecutive-numbering wheels advance one notch whenever the keys B, G, or D are pressed; but at other times they remain quiescent, although, as before remarked, the printing-cylinder J makes a complete revolution at every turn of the crank regardless of the key pressed, as heretofore stated.

Between the printingcylinder .I and the frame A is a disk S. (Shown in Fig. 9 and also in Fig. 4 of the patent to Murphy before referred to.) This disk has a concentric circular groove 3, in which fits a stud j, which is secured to one end of the pitman which operates the actuatiug pawl j, which turns the consecutive numbering wheels. The shaft J upon which the printing-cylinder is journaled passes through the disk S, which is also journaled thereon, but eccentrically with re spect to the printing-cylinder, and the study" slides in the groove 5. From this it will readily be seen that whenever the disk is held fixed and the printingcylinder rotated the actuating-pawl will be moved to turn the consecutive -numbering wheels. In the device as shown in the Murphy patent the disk is always fixed rigidly in position, so that the consecutive-numbering wheels advance one notch whenever the machine is operated. The present feature of my invention, however, consist-s, specifically, of means operated by the keys which make the disk rigid or otherwise with respect to the rotation of the printing-cylinder J, according to the key which is pressed. If special keys B, O, and D be pressed, the connecting-bar R is pushed inward,therebyswinging upward the crank O. The crank in swinging upward presses up the bar T. (See Fig. 3 Itis shown in reverse position in Fig. 4. The upper end ofthe bar T is slotted, forming the two tines t, and through this slot between the-tines passes a stud T, having a head t, which rests on the tines. A flat spring T rests upon the head of the stud and presses the latter inward. At its slotted end the bar T is bent laterally, (see Figs. L and 5,) the effect of which is that when one of the special keys B, C, or D is pressed the bar T is pushed upward and sliding under the head of the stud it pulls the latter partly out of its socket in the frame A against the pressure of the spring C When the stud T is in normal position, as shown in Fig. 4, its inner end is flush with the surface of the frame A Normally spring-pressed against the inner end of the stud T is a plunger U, which normally fits in a suitable recess 3 in the disk S, the inner end, however, extending through into a socket fill the right-hand end of the printingcylinder, (see Fig. 1,) whereby the printing-cylinder J and the disk S are normally locked together. When, however, one of the special keys B, C, or D is pressed, the stud T is raised partly out of its socket and is followed by the spring-pressed plunger U, the head of which moves into the socket of the stud T, its inner end at the same time being withdrawn from its notch or socket 7 in the end of the printing-cylinder,

so that the disk S is locked fast to the frame A by the plunger U; but the printing-cylinder is unlocked from the disk S and rotates independently thereof, whereby the stud j will be reciprocated and the consecutive-numbering wheels advanced one notch, as before explained. Just before the end of the movement of the crank-handle B the usual springs return the operated key 13, C, or D to normal position, and the spring R draws the connecting-bar forward, thereby rocking the printing-cylinders away from their respective printing-cylinders. At the same time the bar T is returned to normal position. The spring P forces the stud P back to normal position and drives the inner end of the plunger U into its socket in the right-hand end'of the printing-cylinder J. If upon any registration none of the keys B, O, or D is pressed, the bar R would not be moved. Consequently no check will be printed or issued and the consecutive-nnmbering wheels will not be turned. Whenever the keys are pressed and the handle turned, the mutilated gear makes a revolution and through the intermediate gear M gives the lower type-cylinder N a quarter-turn, and thereby aditferent one of the four electros n is printed on the back of each of any four succeeding checks issued by the machine. If, however, a registration be made Without pressing one of the special keys B, O, or D, although they make a quarter-turn, as usual, the feedroller 0 is not rocked into position to press the check-strip against the type-cylinder N, so that no check is issued or printed.

For purposes of illustration I ha e shown and described a specific form of my invention as applied to a particular type of cash-reg, ister. It may, however, be applied to any machine which comprises a printing mechanism and a series of keys. Likewise, while in this instance, I have shown and described the keys B, G, and D as arranged to cause a check to be printed and issued and the consecutive-11umbering device to be thrown into operative connection, the arrangement of the keys is entirely one of selection. If for any reason it should be desired, the same connections could be made with the cash-keys or with any special keys with which the machine might be provided.

It will be readily understood, too, that While I have shown and described the printing and feeding devices as normally inoperative and arranged to be thrown into operative relation when certain of the keys are pressed it is wholly within the scope of my invention to reverse this arrangement and have the printin devices normally operative and arranged to be thrown out of operative relation when certain of the keys are pressed. In other words, the scope of my invention is not limited to the construction shown and described.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1. In a cash-register, the combination with the cash-keys and an operating handle or member, of the special keys, a normally inoperative printer arranged to print upon a paper strip the details of a recorded transaction, a consecutive-numbering device arranged to print upon said paper strip, and means controlled by the special keys to advance the consecutive-hum bering device and to cause the said printer to make an impression upon the paper strip as the operating handle or member is actuated.

2. In a cash-register, the combination with the cash-keys and special keys and a handle or operating member, of a printing device controlled by the cash-keys, a normally inoperative feeding mechanism which is independent of the cash-keys for leading a paper strip to said printing device, an independent printingdevice controlled by the special keys, and means controlled by the special keys only for causing said paper strip to be fed to the printer and an impression printed thereupon, when the handle or operating member is actuated.

In acash-register, the combination with a printing device, of a feeding-roller journaled on an eccentric shaft, a crank secured to said shaft, a series of keys cooperating with the printing device and a connecting-bar secured to said crank and adapted to be operated by a portion of said keys only.

4. In a cash-register of the class described which is arranged to print a paper check, the combination with a series of consecutivenumbering wheels, of a series of keys, means intermediate a portion of said keys and the printing devices to throw the latter into operative positions only when one of said particnlar keys is operated and devices for causing the relative positions of the consecutive-numbering wheels to be changed only when one of said particular keys is operated.

5. In a cash-register of the class described,

' the combination with a printing device, of a series of consecutive-numbering wheels, a series of keys cooperating with said printing device, and means intermediate a portion of said keys and the consecutive-numbering wheels for causing the relative positions of said wheels to be changed only when one of said particular keys is operated.

6. In a cash-register of the class described, the combination with the conseculive-numbering wheels, a series of keys and a driving mechanism, of means controlled by a portion of the keys for causing said wheels to be actuated by the driving mechanism only when one of said particular keys is pressed.

'7. In a cash-register having a printing device and arranged to issue or not issue a check as desired, the combination with consecutivenumbering wheels, a series of keys, means controlled by the keys for moving said wheels relatively to each other only when a check is printed or issued.

8. In a cash-register of the class described,

the combination with a driving means and printing device, of a feeding-roller cooperating with the latter, consecutive-numbering wheels mounted on said printing device, a series of keys cooperating with the printing device and means controlled by a portion of the keys only for moving the feeding-roller into operative position, and for causing the consecutive-numbering wheels to be turned by the driving means.

9. In acash-register of the class described, the combination with the printing-cylinder arranged to print upon one side of a check, and a type-cylinder arranged to print upon the opposite side of the same, feed-rollers cooperating with the printingcylinder and type-cylinder respectively, a series of keys, and means actuated by a portion of said keys for throwing the rollers into operative relation with their respective cylinders.

10. In a cash-register employing a checkstrip, the combination with the cash-keys and the special keys, of the type-segments cooperatin g with the cash-keys to record the cashkeys that have been operated, the type-segments controlled by the special keys to record the special key that has been operated, devices for feeding the check-strip to typesegments and means intermediate the special keys and said feeding devices whereby when certain of the special keys are pressed and the register operated, a check will be automatically printed and whereby the machine may be operated in connection With the other special keys Without printing a check.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

JOSEPH P. OLEAL.

Witnesses:

PEARL N. SIGLER, ALVAN MAOAULEY. 

